The video of George Floyd being killed is suspicious as fuck.
Those weren't paramedics that came and checked his pulse, then put him into the ambulance.... those were state troopers. Nani the fuck?
And how the fuck did the ambulance get there so fucking fast? And why was it even there? No one had checked to see if he was in medical distress..... Who called for the ambulance? When did they call?
The one thing that stood out to me is: I've been put in plenty of chokeholds in my life (restricted oxygen to the brain), and I've choked on food before (inability to breathe) and there's one rule that is true for both forms of "choking."
If you ever are, you can't talk or cry out for help. You can't cough or wheeze. After the initial shock wears off, you can't even easily move around no matter how much you panic. That's what fucking choking is and why it's so terrifying, and why even trained medical professionals can't self-Heimlich easily, and why martial artists don't just shrug it off and ignore when opponents put them in a hold.
It's like drowning in a sense. People are always worried about the person splashing around wildly screaming for help, while the kid just bobbing in place calmly gets overlooked. Lifeguards have to be trained to tune out the usual noise of kids screaming in mortal terror because their brother splashed them, and instead be excessively observant of kids that aren't doing anything that'd raise a red flag, because that's the biggest red flag of them all.
A person saying "I can't breathe" over and over again while flopping about is the last person to check and see if they're choking. After he stopped moving towards the end, the officer probably slipped from a pin to a choke on accident because he was poorly balanced and the guy kept shifting underneath him. Before that, it was just an unruly person resisting arrest and trying to garner sympathy from bystanders. After that, it was already too late.
I was taught self-defense when I was a kid, and had the 123-369 rule drilled into my head over and over and over again, because of how important it is. (And to the schools that say "hold a choke to the ten count to make sure", teach your students how to fucking choke properly. Seriously. If a little kid with some training can consistently put healthy adults on the ground in under a second, there's no excuse for that bullshit.)
123-369 rule: 1-3 seconds in an anoxic hold to knock someone completely unconscious. 2-6 seconds of being oxygen deprived before brain cells start permanently dying. 3-9 seconds to vegetative coma or death. I can personally vouch for the minimum range, thankfully I've never killed or retarded someone before, but I trusted my teacher on that one and never tried to test it out.
(This isn't related to the medical field's 30 seconds to 9 minutes. Those are hypoxic chokes, meaning some or most of the oxygen is still getting to the brain and you have time to treat them. In a proper chokehold, you restrict all bloodflow to the brain, and the effect is immediate. It's the minor difference between someone jerking your dick fast enough to give you friction burns, and someone ripping your dick off.)
Gauging a proper choke can be difficult, there's a huge range that allows for errors to be lethal. 3 seconds is the amount to aim for to guarantee a choke-out, but you accept that 3 seconds might be enough kill people with weaker constitutions, pre-existing health conditions, or the like. (And no, there is no adjusting on the fly, because most people being choked flop before they actually pass out, so doing a 1-2 second choke might let them recover and attack you.)
If you put someone in a choke intentionally, it can be hard to gauge whether or not you've held them too long, even in a controlled setting with a spotter telling you to break almost as soon as you establish the hold, much less so in an actual fight where time seems to dilate and contract. Putting someone in a choke accidentally, as this officer did? Nothing much could have been done about it, even if he noticed a few seconds after the man stopped moving it would have been too late.
For what it's worth, not one single PD out there that I know about teaches officers to use chokes to stop a perpetrator, there's a "never apply any neck pressure" rule at the majority of them for that very reason. So while this was most likely manslaughter and not murder, it was a grossly negligent manslaughter because the cop had to ignore all of his training to do so.
So yes, outrage at a renegade cop is 100% fully justified. Riots nationwide because he was clearly articulating how he couldn't breathe while he obviously still could, and the cop didn't take him seriously? Bullshit.
I noticed that bit about the ambulance. It must have been en route while he was still conscious. Why was an ambulance on the way while he was still conscious?
I'm looking back through the video again, and comparing those paramedics to pictures online. It looks like Hennepin County EMS really does wear brown shirts like that that makes them look like state troopers.
The video of George Floyd being killed is suspicious as fuck.
Those weren't paramedics that came and checked his pulse, then put him into the ambulance.... those were state troopers. Nani the fuck?
And how the fuck did the ambulance get there so fucking fast? And why was it even there? No one had checked to see if he was in medical distress..... Who called for the ambulance? When did they call?
The one thing that stood out to me is: I've been put in plenty of chokeholds in my life (restricted oxygen to the brain), and I've choked on food before (inability to breathe) and there's one rule that is true for both forms of "choking."
If you ever are, you can't talk or cry out for help. You can't cough or wheeze. After the initial shock wears off, you can't even easily move around no matter how much you panic. That's what fucking choking is and why it's so terrifying, and why even trained medical professionals can't self-Heimlich easily, and why martial artists don't just shrug it off and ignore when opponents put them in a hold.
It's like drowning in a sense. People are always worried about the person splashing around wildly screaming for help, while the kid just bobbing in place calmly gets overlooked. Lifeguards have to be trained to tune out the usual noise of kids screaming in mortal terror because their brother splashed them, and instead be excessively observant of kids that aren't doing anything that'd raise a red flag, because that's the biggest red flag of them all.
A person saying "I can't breathe" over and over again while flopping about is the last person to check and see if they're choking. After he stopped moving towards the end, the officer probably slipped from a pin to a choke on accident because he was poorly balanced and the guy kept shifting underneath him. Before that, it was just an unruly person resisting arrest and trying to garner sympathy from bystanders. After that, it was already too late.
I was taught self-defense when I was a kid, and had the 123-369 rule drilled into my head over and over and over again, because of how important it is. (And to the schools that say "hold a choke to the ten count to make sure", teach your students how to fucking choke properly. Seriously. If a little kid with some training can consistently put healthy adults on the ground in under a second, there's no excuse for that bullshit.)
123-369 rule: 1-3 seconds in an anoxic hold to knock someone completely unconscious. 2-6 seconds of being oxygen deprived before brain cells start permanently dying. 3-9 seconds to vegetative coma or death. I can personally vouch for the minimum range, thankfully I've never killed or retarded someone before, but I trusted my teacher on that one and never tried to test it out.
(This isn't related to the medical field's 30 seconds to 9 minutes. Those are hypoxic chokes, meaning some or most of the oxygen is still getting to the brain and you have time to treat them. In a proper chokehold, you restrict all bloodflow to the brain, and the effect is immediate. It's the minor difference between someone jerking your dick fast enough to give you friction burns, and someone ripping your dick off.)
Gauging a proper choke can be difficult, there's a huge range that allows for errors to be lethal. 3 seconds is the amount to aim for to guarantee a choke-out, but you accept that 3 seconds might be enough kill people with weaker constitutions, pre-existing health conditions, or the like. (And no, there is no adjusting on the fly, because most people being choked flop before they actually pass out, so doing a 1-2 second choke might let them recover and attack you.)
If you put someone in a choke intentionally, it can be hard to gauge whether or not you've held them too long, even in a controlled setting with a spotter telling you to break almost as soon as you establish the hold, much less so in an actual fight where time seems to dilate and contract. Putting someone in a choke accidentally, as this officer did? Nothing much could have been done about it, even if he noticed a few seconds after the man stopped moving it would have been too late.
For what it's worth, not one single PD out there that I know about teaches officers to use chokes to stop a perpetrator, there's a "never apply any neck pressure" rule at the majority of them for that very reason. So while this was most likely manslaughter and not murder, it was a grossly negligent manslaughter because the cop had to ignore all of his training to do so.
So yes, outrage at a renegade cop is 100% fully justified. Riots nationwide because he was clearly articulating how he couldn't breathe while he obviously still could, and the cop didn't take him seriously? Bullshit.
I noticed that bit about the ambulance. It must have been en route while he was still conscious. Why was an ambulance on the way while he was still conscious?
I'm looking back through the video again, and comparing those paramedics to pictures online. It looks like Hennepin County EMS really does wear brown shirts like that that makes them look like state troopers.
They usually wear bullet proof vests?